{"id":2392,"date":"2008-10-15T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2008-10-15T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T19:06:48","slug":"plainpaste-out-puretext-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/plainpaste-out-puretext-in\/","title":{"rendered":"PlainPaste Out, PureText In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donationcoder.com\/Software\/Skrommel\/#PlainPaste\">PlainPaste<\/a> by Skrommel for more than a year. When you&#8217;re running PlainPaste and you hit Ctrl-v, it strips out all the formatting info of whatever is in the clipboard and pastes just the text. It&#8217;s really useful when grabbing web page text and pasting it to other places.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, PlainPaste doesn&#8217;t always play nice with other programs. For instance, when you paste into Excel, Excel crashes :-(<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m trying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemiller.net\/puretext\/\">PureText 2.0<\/a> \u00a0by Steve Miller. He also wrote the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dependencywalker.com\/\">Dependency Walker<\/a> \u00a0which bodes well :-). Puretext claims to work similar to PlainPaste. Hopefully it won&#8217;t do bad things. We&#8217;ll see! It has the added benefit of playing a fun clave sound when you paste using Window-Hot-Key-v. Of course you can turn off the sound but it made me chipper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using PlainPaste by Skrommel for more than a year. When you&#8217;re running PlainPaste and you hit Ctrl-v, it strips out all the formatting info of whatever is in the clipboard and pastes just the text. It&#8217;s really useful when grabbing web page text and pasting it to other places. Unfortunately, PlainPaste doesn&#8217;t always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}